*NEW: NYC Hunger Experience 2009
NYC Hunger Experience 2009: A Year in Recession, reveals that 40 percent of New Yorkers, 3.3 million people, are having difficulty affording food, a 60 percent increase since 2003. At the same time, 93 percent of food pantries and soup kitchens in the city have seen an increase in first-time visitors over the past year.
Child Hunger policy paper
Learn more about childhood hunger in our city with the Food Bank's new policy paper,
Child Hunger: The Unhealthy Return on Missed Investments — released on October 7, 2008.
Help Update Outdated Poverty Measures
Federal poverty measures, created in the 1960s, are based on a number of outdated and incorrect assumptions about the expenses low-income Americans face. Please join Food Bank in supporting the Measuring American Poverty Act of 2009 to update these measures!
NYC Emergency Food Survey 2009
To gain information on how the recession is impacting New York City’s network of soup kitchen and food pantries, the Food Bank For New York City surveyed our members in the spring of 2009 to determine changes in demand for emergency food and the resources available. Two-thirds of soup kitchens and food pantries responded. A full report of the findings will be released in November.
